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No. 5 - Long Wharf 

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No. 6 — Commeroial Wharf 

Pluil Line lo Hilifu, N. S. 
Fi>hlng Flm 



No. 2 — Myalic Docka 

Allu Line I.> lib.|:..» 

Himbutv- Amf ritMn Line from Hainbun; ( Frrighl Servic 



Ia^iuu Line lo Ha\'aiu 
Linrri»n-lndtan Line from CalrutU 
jne lo Moll China-Japan Line from Yokohama 

Amcrit-a I,inc In Kolierilam Clax Line (rom Fowey, England 

No. 7 — Central, India and Foster's Wharves 



No. 3 — Boston & Albany Docks 

Cunard Line lo Liverjiool I,e^Und Line In I.ondnn 

l.ey]and Line to Liverpool Leyland Line In Manchetter 

luiian Line from Gemtt Nonh-trtnnan IJnyd Line in Bremen 

Ruftian- American Line from Libau 

No. 8 — Fisk A Harris Wharves 



Eutem S. S. C 
Hniton ii Vannouth S. S. Co' 
moulK, N. S. 



Si. John, N. B. F^ailem S S. Co. to New York EutesS. S. Co. to Poitland, Me. 

EaalemS. S. Co. lo Bangor, Me. Boitia & Glouccfter I Ma»». I Line 
Eutcra S. S. Co. 10 Bath, Mc. , 



Mcrrhanli & Minen' Line to Philadelphia 



No. 4 — National Docks ' 

Houiioo Line Irom South America 
Buher Line Ifnm Ihe River Plane. 
South America 

No. 9 — Constitution Wharf 

Merchant, k Miner.' Line to Ballim 



Commonwealth Pier 5 

HamSnri: Amerinr, Line lo Hamborg 



No. 10 - Bailcrr Wharf ' 

.Meichanl. 4 .Miner.' IJne In Norfolk 



The Port Book 

of 

Boston 



Prepared under the Supervision of the 
Publicity Committee 



Thirty-Ninth Annual Convention 

of the 

American Bankers Association 



Boston, October Six to Ten 
Nineteen Hundred Thirteen 






Copyright, 1913 

H. B. Humphrey Company 

Boston 







The 

Port 

Book 

of 

Boston 



The New Custom House 




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The Port Book 
of Boston 



Boston Harbor and Bay 



AT the present point of departure of the steamers 
for the beaches and shore resorts stood the 
old Sconce, or Southern Battery, in the eigh- 
teenth century ; and at the present location of Bat- 
tery Wharf, now occupied by the Merchants & 
Miners' line, was the North Battery. Between these 
two defences lay the Great Cove, which at that time 
constituted the inner haven, stretching well inland, 
as the land now lies. 

The print by Paul Revere, of which a reproduction 
is shown facing our title page, was made in 1768, 
when the Revolution was already fermenting, and 
only seven years before Revere made his midnight 
ride to Lexington and beyond. The North Battery 
is shown in the engraving, but the Sconce is not 
included. The church almost touching the left-hand 
margin of the picture is the First Church in Boston ; 
the tower next as you travel to the right is that of the 



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The First Steamer Plying Boston Harbor 



Town House (now the Old State House) ; next 
seems to be the old Brattle Street Church ; and then 
comes Faneuil Hall. The Town Dock ran up con- 
siderably closer to the ' ' Cradle of Liberty ' ' than 
Revere 's picture would indicate. 

The great pier or dock, running^ far out into the 
harbor, upon which the boat-loads of British soldiers 
from the fleet are landing, is Long- Wharf. Just 
behind the row of houses lining the wharf you see a 
little offshoot, a sort of appendix to the main pier. 
This was Minott's T, the predecessor of the present 
T wharf. This T, in the picture, shows the point 
where the Atlantic Avenue water-front of to-day 
marks the limit of the harbor. The cove behind the 
T was long since filled and built upon with ware- 
houses and shops. The greater portion of the Long 

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Mammoth Cabin Steamer Camden 



Wharf of the engraving is now State Street. A 
very different idea of the water-front and harbor is 
to be g-ained from the " View of Boston in 1848," on 
page 8. Doubtless it is more accurate, but it is less 
interesting. Bunker Hill Monument, at the extreme 
right, and the dome of the State House are of 
unmistakable identity. Notable in this picture are 
the great gable-ended warehouses along the docks, 
presumably stuffed with the assets of East India 
merchants, who flourished in that day. Yet from a 
comparison of the two prints, one's notion of the 
development of the port during a period of eighty 
years gains emphasis. The transition from the age 
of sails to that of steam is also apparent, and one 
feels that the draftsman did his best to picture things 
correctly. 

The Norseman, Thorwald, is said to have discovered 

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Castle Island and Fort Independence, 
Marine Park, South Boston 



Boston Harbor, in the year 1003. Eig-ht hundred 
and seven years after that episode a steamboat line 
was placed in operation between Boston and Plymouth. 
The Eagle, of which we can, fortunately, show an 
illustration, was the first steamer to ply Boston 
Harbor, in 1810 ; the big: coastwise passenger liner 
on the opposite page is shown by way of contrast, 
and to give an idea of what a century has done in the 
development of the " all-cabin " type of steamer. 

Boston Harbor was favorably known to mariners 
for many years before the settlement of New Eng- 
land. The Pilgrims, touching at the tip-end of 
Cape Cod, v/here now is Provincetown, cut across 
Massachusetts Bay and bore to the left. Had they 
headed a little more to starboard, Boston might have 
turned out to be Plymouth. The Pilgrim settle- 
ments straggled along the South vShore by the way 
of Duxbury, Hingham, and the Weymouths to 
Merrymount, now Quincy, and thus reached Quincy 
Bay, a branch of Boston Harbor, by the shore route. 
Point Allerton, now a part of Hull, where Thorwald, 
the Norseman, landed in 1003, was Pilgrim territory 
named for one Allerton, who married a daughter of 

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Elder William Brewster. The group of islands 
called " The Brewsters " was named for the elder's 
children. Boston Lig^ht, from which transatlantic 
steamers time their runs, is on Little Brewster. 
The first light at this point was set up in 1716. 

From the earliest days of the Boston colony the 
development of the port and encouragement of mari- 
time commerce was an important concern of the 
settlers. Governor Winthrop himself built a ship 
in 1631, at a shipyard established at Medford, a 
few miles up the Mystic River. Ship-building be- 
came a leading industry, and Boston merchants 
waxed prosperous in foreign trade. An attempt 
to make Cambridge the metropolis of the Massachu- 
setts Bay Colony failed, for the importance of the 
port and harbor was too weighty a consideration to 
ignore. Boston is geog"raphically adapted for im- 
mense sea traffic, and in the earlier half of the nine- 
teenth century the clipper ships of Boston were the 
finest and swiftest in the world. 

Another product of the Boston shipyards was 
the frigate Constitution, "Old Ironsides," launched 
in 1797. This staunch old Yankee ship, pictured on 

Deer Island and House of Correction 



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George's Island, Fort Warren 

pag'e 26, with her protective deck-housing, hes at 
the United States Navy Yard, at Charlestown. The 
Navy Yard includes about ninety acres and has the 
largest dry dock in the country. Here is made the 
cordag-e for the American Navy. There are usually 
several of Uncle Sam's ships here. 

Reference to the bird's-eye view, supplemented 
by various pictures, will assist the reader to locate 
points of interest encountered in a trip about Boston 
Harbor. Besides the docks, of which note is made 
in Section H, and on the charts, pag'es 18 and 19, 
the tourist will be somewhat curious in regrard to the 
islands and landmarks of the harbor. 

Of these, the most notable are : 

Fort Independence, on Castle Island, South Bos- 
ton. First called the Castle. Earliest defensive 
structure built 1633 ; present stone fort built 1850. 

Deer Island, with the city House of Correction. 
Separated from the mainland by wShirley Gut, a 
tide-race which an occasional prisoner attempts to 
swim. 

Fort Warren, on George's Island. Used as a 
Federal prison during the Civil War. Mason and 

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Slidell, Confederate envoys to Engfland, were confined 
here. 

Long Island Head has a light of 860 candle-power. 
The island is yi mile wide and 1/^ miles long-. Light- 
house built in 1819. 

Nix's Mate. Hardly more than a reef, where 
formerly stood a beautiful green island. Here pirates 
were hung in chains. Nix's mate, said to have mur- 
derecf his captain, being executed here, prophesied 
that the island would wash away to prove his 
innocence. 

Bug Light marks the end of a long " spit " stretch- 
ing out from Great Brewster Island, a dangerous 
shoal with a heavy tideway. 

Boston Light, on Little Brewster, marks the en- 
trance to the harbor and the eastern end of the 
transatlantic path. The light stands about 100 feet 
above the water and is rated at 35,000 candle-power. 

Spectacle Island was so named on account of its 
shape ; the light is of 800 candle-power brilliancy. 

The Graves. This is the most powerful light on 
the Atlantic coast, excepting only Sandy Hook. Its 
1,000,000 candle-power light has recently been re- 
Long Island Head and Fort Strong 




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Nix's Mate 

placed with a new equipment, rated at 2,600,000 
candle-power. The light-tower stands 90 feet above 
the water. 

Range Lights, on Lovell's Island, mark the inner 
end of Broad Sound. Fort Standish is under con- 
struction on this island. 

Minof s Ledge. A very dangerous reef, exposed 
to the full sweep of wind and wave. Two light- 
towers were destroyed here previous to the building 
of the present structure. The light is of 220,000 
candle-power. 

Of several points of interest, we show no illustra- 
tion. Governor's Island, with Fort Winthrop, was 
the site of the first Fort Warren, named for the 
Revolutionary hero who fell at Bunker Hill. The 
name was later transferred to a new fort on George's 
Island. Quarantine for incoming ships is maintained 
at Gallup's Island. Rainsford Island, bought from 
the Indians by Elder Edward Raynesford in Colonial 
times, is now city property and the site of a munici- 
pal almshouse. On Thompson's Island there is an 
agricultural school for boys, and on Bumkin Island 
the Burrage Hospital for crippled children. 

Boston Harbor is rich in historic association, and 
although much has been written of it, to do it justice 

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would require a far more ambitious volume than this 
booklet. In summer the nearby resorts are crowded 
with pleasure-seekers, and the cooling breezes are as 
available for the poor as for the well-to-do. Nan- 
tasket Beach, upon whose sands the ocean rollers 
break unceasingfly, migfht be called the Coney Island 
of New England — if it were an island, and if it were 
not practically duplicated by Revere Beach, which, 
though not quite within the harbor limit, is just around 
the corner from it. On hot Sundays in summer the 
visitors to these beaches run into the hundreds of 
thousands. 

Contrasting with these popular resoits, we find the 
exclusive summer colonies of Cohasset and Scituate, 
south of the city, while along the North Shore are 
the cliffs of Swampscott, Marblehead, Beverly, and 
Magnolia, crowned with the summer palaces of the 
exclusive rich. 

Ask who has the best time — the millionaire with 
his castle-on-the-rocks, or the summer squatter in a 
breeze-shaken bungalow of canvas and boards. Let 
the location be near Boston Bay, and the answer is 
"Both! " 




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BO sir ON K \^^'^ 







The Commercial Water-front 



18 



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The Entire Harbor, or Boston Bay 



Explanation 



These charts show, the one on page 18, the harbor 
proper ; that on this page, 19, the outlying waters 
and the approaches from the Atlantic. 

The numbers on the water-front chart, page 18, 
indicate : 1 — The new 1200 foot, $3,000,000 dry dock; 
2 — Commonwealth dock development, with Pier 5 
and the great fish pier ; 3 — Recently purchased 
Commonwealth property in East Boston ; 4 — The 
B. & A. Terminal (Grand Junction), the best 
equipped ocean-railway terminal in the world ; 5 — 
Hoosac Terminal of the Boston & Maine R. R. ; 6 — 

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Mystic Terminal of the Boston & Maine R. R. ; 7 — 
New Haven Terminal. 

It should be noted that freight transfers from ship to 
car or car to ship are accomplished without lighterage. 




Bug Light 



Reference to these charts and to the bird's-eye view 
on inside front cover will assist readers to a clear 
appreciation of the facts set forth in this book. The 
solid black shows the Commonwealth's property. 

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II 



The Commercial Water-front 



Boston with 

Fifteen Million Net Tons (thirty billion pounds) 
of shipping annually is the second commercial port of 
the western hemisphere, and the sixth in the world. 

There are 141 Miles of available water-front in 
Boston Harbor, of which 41 miles are represented by 
the lineal measurements of the docking space in the 
upper harbor. There are 6 miles of docking space 
with 30 feet of water or more at mean low tide, and 
40 feet at high tide. Docking accommodations are 
available for ships of the deepest draft. 

The Principal Boston Docks are not only steam- 
ship piers, but fully equipped railway terminals, with 
many miles of trackage alongside the berths of 
the ships. This means the entire elimination of 
lighterage and a minimum of demand for car floats. 

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Head House, Commonwealth Pier 5 




The Boston & Maine Railroad maintains two 
terminals, with grain elevators of J, 500,000 bushels 
capacity ; the Boston & Albany Terminal elevator 
is of 1,000,000 bushels capacity. A ship may load 
with gfrain at the rate of 10,000 bushels an hour. The 
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad has 
extensive terminal facilities on the south side of the 
harbor. 

Boston is therefore a favorable inlet and outlet for 
foreign trade for the entire country. 

Included in the volume of freight handled at the 
port of Boston annually are : 125,000,000 lbs. of 
foreign wool, besides 15,000,000 bushels of grain, 
and 7,000,000 tons of coal. The value of foreign 
trade at the port for the year 1912 was $216,330,169 ; 
the imports being $150,637,523 and the exports 
$65,692,646. In the last ten years the value of the 
foreign trade at Boston has increased 31 per 
cent. 

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Commonweaitn Pier 5 under Construction 
Arrival of the Hamburg-American Steamship Cincinnati 



Boston is Nearer Europe by 24 hours than New 
York. 

On June 7 last the sister ships C/cve/a?id and 0?ia'n- 
nodhoi the Hambu rg - American line, sailed from 
Bosfon - and Ngw YrvrTr jrespectiveh', at 12 o'clock, 



noon, for Hamburg. Both are 17,000-ton boats, of 
similar design and like speed. The 0';/r/« ;/«-// reached 
Cuxhaven, at the mouth of the Elbe River, below 
Hamburg, 24 hours ahead of the Cleveland. 

Six million dollars are being spent for dock im- 
provements in London to save 3 hours in docking. 
Query : How much is Boston's 24 hours' advantage 
over New York worth, at $2,000,000 per hour ? 

The Port of Expedition. So^ne Amazing Figures. 

Boston is 194 miles nearer Liverpool than New 
York ; 858 miles nearer the Panama Canal than Los 
Angeles, and 1,225 miles nearer than San Francisco, 
30 miles nearer Rio de Janeiro than New York, 80 
miles nearer than Philadelphia, 480 miles nearer than 
New Orleans, and 596 miles nearer than Galveston. 

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Hoosac Terminal, Boston & Maine R. R. 

The Port of Good and Improving Service. In 

the year 1912 there were 105 sailings to Liverpool. 
(Over two a week — a better Liverpool service than 
that of New York- ) 

In the same year there were 87 to other British 
and Scotch ports. 

Other Sailings, direct 
26 to Antwerp, 
26 to Rotterdam, 
28 to Hamburg", 
22 to Copenhagen, 
15 to the Mediterranean, 
58 to Central America, 
70 to West Indies, 
10 to Havana. 

Also (indirect) 

South America 32, 
Calcutta, China, and Japan 80, 
and many domestic and Canadian coastwise sailing's. 
The number of sailing-s is increasing annually, and 

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Grand Junction Terminal, Boston & Albany R. R. 

the service improvingf in reg-ularity, number of ports, 
character of ships, and docking: facilities. 

For European Passenger Service Boston offers 
not only the advantag'e of 24 hours g^ained en voyage, 
but 

Quick Docking. Boston Lig-ht is only 1 hour from 
the piers. . 

Fine Ships of the leading transatlantic lines. 

Expeditious Transfer and the Best Train Service in 
every direction. 

Boston is the doorway to America's Greatest Play- 
ground and Vacation Territory. Boston, itself a 
magnificent city, with scores of historic, artistic, and 
literary shrines, the largest park area in the world, 
ample hotel accommodations, and its ready access to 
the lovely old New England country of which it is 
the metropolis, is well worth a visit ; and to tourists 
en route it holds out a delightful hospitality. Boston 
is a city of peculiar individual charm, which, when 
once felt, prompts a real fondness for it on the part 
of visitors as well as residents. 



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" Old Ironsides," Boston Navy Yard 



** Sail from Boston," therefore, is a slogan of real 
practical significance to travelers. 

The Development of the Port. With a great 
natural basin protected from the force of ocean dis- 
turbances, wide and safe anchorages for deep craft 
and many estuaries and navigable feeders which 
render a large number of towns directly accessible 
by water, Boston Harbor is capable of vast develop- 
ment. 

Impressed with the enormous economic importance 
of methodical development and determined, efficient 
exploitation, far-sighted citizens, with the best inter- 
ests of commercial New England and Boston at heart, 
have worked for years toward the desired end. The 
Boston Chamber of Commerce, which is the largest 
civic organization of its kind in America, has ren- 
dered valuable service to the community in the shape 

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of serious, carefully considered work with adequate 
harbor development in view. In this work it has 
been upheld by the newspapers and business inter- 
ests of the city. Mayor John F. Fitzgerald has been 
a persistent and consistent advocate. The following: 
statistics emphasize the importance of civic effort. 

The population of Boston, compared with that of 
other American centers : 



New York, inside 50-mile radius 
Boston ,, ,, ,, 

Philadelphia ,, ,, ,, 

Chicago 
St. Louis 



7,321,485 
3,470,587 

2,943,848 
2,843,057 
1,228,184 

Persons not familiar with Boston, or appreciative 
of her real place among world cities, judge her only 
by the census figures of the so-called ' ' municipal 
city," which credit her with 686,092 inhabitants. 
Municipal Boston has a restricted area, and to omit 
the suburban communities adjacent to Boston, analo- 
gous to those included in the municipal areas of other 
American cities, gives an inadequate idea of the real 
Boston. 



Boston Light, on Little Brewster 




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Spectacle Island 

Including- these suburban communities, within 
the metropolitan park, water-supply and sewerage 
districts — called, collectively, Metropolitan Boston — 
the population figures are 1,423,429. 

Metropolitan Boston Stands First among 
American cities in the following particulars : 

Acreage of parks. 

Number of high schools. 

Value of boot and shoe products. 

Value of rubber products. 

Value of textile products. 

Value of wool imports. 

Value of fresh fish products . 

Per capita assessed valuation. 

High school attendance, proportion to population. 

Number of post-office stations. 

Per capita wealth. 

Miles of boulevard. 

Miles of railroad trackage (within 50-mile radius). 

Neiv England consumes annually one and a half 
billion dollars' worth of raw materials, turning the 
same into two and one half billion dollars' worth of 
manufactured goods. 

Boston turns three hundred million of raw mate- 
rials into half a billion of manufactured goods. , 

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Figures like these almost lose graphic force because 
of their very immensity . 

Custoins Collections for the Port of Boston turned 
into the Federal Treasury amount to about $25,000,000 
annually. 

Port Development is receiving- the close atten- 
tion and scientific study which it deserves. 

The Directors of the Port constitute a commission 
establislied by legislative enactment in 1911, and 
consisting of five members, all appointed by the 
Governor of the Commonwealth. 

The Port Directors are required to prepare all 
necessary plans for the comprehensive development 
of the harbor, to administer all terminal facilities 
which are under their control, and to keep them- 
selves informed as to the present and future require- 
ments of steamships and shipping, and as to the best 
means which can be provided at the port of Boston 
for the accommodation of steamships, railroads, 
warehouse and industrial establishments. To carry 

The Graves 




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Range Lights, Lo veil's Island 

on their work, an initial appropriation of $9,000,000 
was placed at their disposal, to be expended in their 
discretion. 

Commonwealth Pier 5, the Largest Pier in the 

world, is being- built by the Directors of the Port at 
a cost of $3,000,000. It is 

1,200 feet long 
400 , , wide 
It has 50 , , of water at hig-h tide 
40 ,, ,, ,, ,, low 

Could dock the Imperator with 300 feet to spare. 

Has three 2-story sheds of steel and concrete, 20 
acres of floor space ; six railroad tracks, with space for 
150 freight cars : is as large as the four famous Chel- 
sea piers at New York, which cost $23,000,000. 

The head house (see page 22) at the shoreward 
end will be connected with Summer Street by an 
immense viaduct for foot, carriagfe and motor traffic 
spanning the railroad and trucking approaches. 

The Port Directors, with these superior accommo- 
dations, have been able to reach an agrreement with 
the Hamburg- American line, and a regular service 
of magnificent express steamers has been established 

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Minot's 



between Boston and Hamburg. The Cincinnati and 
Clei'eland zxQ. now maintaining: two sailings a month. 
With the addition of other boats, the service is to be 
increased in 1914 to three sailings monthly and in 
1915 to four. 

The Nexv Fish Pier. Also on Commonwealth prop- 
erty, down stream from Pier 5, and under charge of 
the Por^ Directors, is arising the new Commonwealth 
Pier 6, the second largest fish pier in the world. This 
will cost the wState $1,000,000, and a private corpora- 
tion will spend another million 
for buildings. It will relieve 
the congestion of fishing vessels 
at T Wharf and free that dock 
for other uses. 

The Largest Dry Dock on this 
side of the Atlantic is being- 
built by the Port Directors at 
a cost of $3,000,000. At pres- 
ent there is no dry dock on an 
Atlantic seaboard big enough 
for the largest ships. The Com- 
monwealth dry dock will accom- 
modate two 500-foot ships with 
200 feet to spare, or a craft like 
the Imperator and still have 300 
feet leeway. Hitherto, all the 
big liners have had to dry-dock 
on the European side. The 
allied lines are to pay the State 
$50,000 a year towards the cost 
of maintenance. 



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A lYc'ii' $1,000,000 Pier is planned for the location 
adjoining' the Boston & Albany Terminal docks at 
East Boston, shown on the map on page 18 in black, 



This dock will have spe- 
grain from the Boston & 



with the index number 3. 
cial facilities for loading 
Albany elevator. 

Reclaiming the Shallo^vs. Another work of the Port 
Directors now in view is the reclamation of the 
State flats. One hundred and seventy acres of these, 
just below the Boston & Albany Terminal, as shown 
on page 18, will be made available by using the 
dredgings from the new ship channel. This will pro- 
vide deep water alongside and filled land in one opera- 
tion. This reclamation will add two miles to the 
available wharf space of the port, with deep water for 
ships of heavy draft. 

Other reclamation work will accompany the build- 
ing of the new dry dock. A ciuay wall aroimd the 

"On Moonlight Bay " 




OF BOSTON 



site of the dry dock will be built, with a deep channel, 
thus adding another two miles of wharf space. 

The Channels. The main ship channel is now 
1,200 feet wide and 35 feet deep at mean low water. 
Another channel, shown on the charts, pages 18 and 
19, will run north of Governor's Island and, like the 
main channel, lead into President Roads, an im- 
mense anchorage basin for deep ships. 

The Tiarbor entrances are shown on page 19, being 
three in number. Broad Sound channel, now used 
by the transatlantic boats, gives 30 feet at mean low 
water. A more direct approach is being dredged to 
35 feet, north of Broad Sound. This channel, when 
completed, will be 2,000 feet wide. The third, or 
"Old" channel, giving 27 feet, M. L. W., running 
out past Nantasket, is deep enough for all ordinary 
shipping, but will be deepened to 40 feet. 

The gentlemen who are now serving the Common- 
wealth as Directors of the Port of Boston, and under 
whose supervision these large projects are being car- 
ried forward, and a multitude of lesser activities 
directed, are : 

Hugh Bancroft, Chainnan. 
Joseph A. Conry. 
W. F. Fitzgerald. 
William S. McNary. 
Francis T. Bowles. 



William R. Mahoney, Secretary. 



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THE Publicity Committee of the Associated 
Banks, Trust Companies, and Bankers of 
Boston acknowledge with due appreciation the 
courtesies shown and assistance extended by the 
chairman and secretary of the Directors of the 
Port and by the ofificials of the Boston Chamber 
of Commerce in the preparation of this book. 

Charles E. Bockus, Chairman. 
A. B. Chapin, 

A. P. Stone, 

B. W. Traffori), 

Publicity Couiuiittcc. 



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